W ~ 'vyjJb.pwr. 11 ^.‘ lUbi-e^dz3g=Jg±i3Tsia=ng-- ^the adventure of twelveJfrco^fryga sailors. . It- a^J<? A Paul Cll( ei t} v.ho sav, ^4*ayt jth h.ls ovdi eyes. arrived in Baltimore todciy^ and told tiie tale, Gilbert was one of tre crev of an American tanker* ^ne-sfegr^gaat- Lbout tv.o hundred miles off the English coast a submarine popped up r>»rrT?rt' -yrcg in a fog. The U-boat signalled the tanker to stop, sent for tne tanker’s master and .^is papers. Gilbert;s* 5 =®». "Our captain got into one of the small boats, ready to obey the orders of the Germans, when the fog lifted.” About a mile and a naif av.ay lay a British steamer, masquerading under the flag of the Irish Free State. The German sub promptly left the American iA-£tsa-c&-e£/ * tanker and moved over to the British The nritish crev. A went overside hurriedly in three coats, and the sub then proceeded to sneil the Britisher. T>e captain of the U-boat undertook to tow one of the Mx boats of the Britisher out in the heavy sea that was running v.as swamped. So the officers of the submarine shouted to the men to catch hold of the side of the U-boat. And there they hung while the German cruised over to the vicinity of the American S UB-.IA K Xi'i £-■ - 2 tanKer. The drama of that rescue lay in the plight of those British seamen clinging to the side of the submarine, tf a British ^ destroyer or plane showed up, the submarine w>uld have instantly submerge^ and uo-^^>--cxr><A • BACOW Here's a curious notion - bacon from a sheep! The notion comes from Great hritain of all places. Britishers at war are being vastly discommoded because the Germans have tried to cut off the Britishers1 breakfast bacon. Most of it came from Denmark and the Baltic countries. President deValera of Bire has forbidden the export of bacon. So now the British Minister of Food is making a ~~v an experiment? trying to turn mutton into bacon.— XAAsix^p '^~e ! SO CHEER UP That lively^iewspaper in New Brunswick, the Sackville Tribune^ prints some [pserteBiBat paragraphs. Here they ares- William Pitt said: wThere is scarcely anything around us but ruin and despair.” Wilberforce in the early i Eighteen Hundreds: nI dare not marry, the future is so dark and unsettled.” Lord Grey in Eighteen Nineteen: Everything is tending to a convulsiDn.” Duke Wellington, on the eve of his death (1851): ”1 thank God I will be spared from seeing the consummation of ruin that is gathering around.” Lord Shaftesbury (1848): ”Nothing can save the British Empire from shipwreck.” As the heading for the story giving the above paragraphs the New Brunswick newspaper prints three^words. SO CHEER UP. - ■ SHIPS ____ , , I tvi "^iirrmn* tWqy Belgians are because United States ships cannot traffic in their —- waters. Ulrtb. Ji'i^ rnty“*i m^rul a visit to the State Department today by the Belgian Ambassador to Washington^ wanted to find out whether there was any possibility of Belgium obtaining some American ships* The withdrawal of our merchant vessels from Belgian ports has already caused distress among^tiw Acting Secretary Welles told the Belgian Ambassador that he would have to get his answer at the U.S.Maritime Commission. PAN-AMEBIC JIN Representatives of twentypone American republics met at Washington today* and started the sessions of what is called the Inter-American Economic and Financial Conference, Sumner Welles, Acting Secretary of State* made the speech of welcome to the delegates. He told them if they can solve their problems, it will be a milestone to a peaceful* happy and propserous new world, Those problems included the business of finding the means of increasing trade among the Americas. New credits would be necessary, he added* but they must be based on sound economy. A large amount of capital is availabel in the United States to develop new activities and new industries elsewhere. But* he observed* it cannot be used until investors are assured that their investment will be safe. Appropos of that, hereT s news from Mexico OIL A ruling in tiie Supreuie Court of Mexico becomes important American ne?/s today. It's an opinion in the great oil controversy tne seizure by the Cardenas Government of four hundred million dollars1 worth of properties owned by foreign companies. tiiaeo‘friag Uftitsa* . Actually, the Mexican Supreme Court has not yet made its ruling in the case. But the court did make public an opinion written by one of the justices, an opinion on which the court still has to vote. And this opinion upholds the Cardenas Government in almost every important detail. The oil companies had complained that the law of Nineteen Thirty-Six was unconstitutional; that’s the law under which the properties were seized. The opinion that went out today is against the companies, finds that law was jiot, unconstitutional. In just one particular does this opinion favor the companies. That's in the matter of the funds ^ if oil properties. r»r~ seized by the government along with tne The opinion as read today by the clerk of the court recommends that the government give those funds back. But as for OIL - 2 the properties themselves, the opinion finds that the expropriation decree was perfectly constitutional and lawful. /.j » mm**) bin t ■■■ vt.rr■ *« uw11 ■ ■' l *m ■! 1 g' rrl b* ■ p ^ 1 m > OIL - 2 the properties themselves, the opinion finds that the expropriation decree was perfectly constitutional and lawful. r- — .-i—- —f ^-1r |rn,y,i- mnmm IP FLIERS Uncle Sam1s good-will fliers, all but one of them, are in Rio de Janeiro tonight. One of the seven flying fortresses which are making a tour of South America, bogged down at the capital of Paraguay and damaged one of its propellers, due to the landing field — but the other six, » r*T»oc;c! after their long flight down the West Andes, today rolled into Rio. FArOMS Y.'e've heard labor unions declaring the fervent hope that Uncle Sant would not be dragged into the war. We've heard the leaders of industry and financ^ech^the^wish A- / njrteijM- tod today the farmers voiced their attitude. Representatives of a million of them in thirty-six states are gathered at Peoria, Illinois, for the annual meeting of the National Grange. And Louis Taber, master of the Grange, said that at all cost America must remain neutral. "Much as we would like to see evil suppressed," said the master of the Grange, "we are not the keepers of the destiny of the race. Though the American farmer's prices are lowland he needs added income. he wants no added dollars stained with human bloody tt r.O R im loan . Uncle Sain will a^ain loan money to corn growers. It was announced at the Department of Agriculture Washington tiiat Secretary Wallace will make his program public shortly. Farmers who complied with the restrictions imposed by the A,A.A., will be able to borrow on about the same terms as last year. fifty-seven cents a bushel McNUTT The time has come for the government to make it easier for the great masses of the people to have not only doctors but McNutt, Federal Security Administrator, also candidate for president, when, as and if he gets a chance to run. McNutt made a speech at Washington today to five hundred members and guests of the National Lawyers Guild. Legal services, he told the lawyers, must be made available to the people to insure that their rights under law are protected, he said that since government affects racre people every year, it is particularly necessary for to have legal protection. And he's going to suggest to President Roosevelt that the whole field of government social services should be made broader. ASJIBURN One j - the /tov^s that has been brewing in Washington for months concerned the Inland ^ Wiv-frmrpnT««tTn'■ "Thir'tr a body created by Congress fifteen years ago at the suggestion of iiajor General A A»a5>=aiftefc»«D^. The idea of the Inland Waterways was li to bring back canal and river commerce in tnis country, ^Major General Ashburn became the first President and Chairman of the Board, and held the post ever since. Two years ago, the I.W.C. started to show a profit, and last year netted over a million dollars for the government. Then Congress passed the government Reorganization Bill, and President Roosevelt placed the Inland Waterways Corporation under the jurisdiction of the Department of Commerce, For three months there has been antagonism between General I 1 I | Ashburn and the Department. Today the Department won, kicked out the man who had A The job frnTTT-wm 1 1 i i in trm ^ was immediately turned over to , •a Dcnno»3ftftt from" Ilijlrppig^ Chester Thompson,bcroa if I Congressman A ^0±Q strlt'e in Georgia, sounds like curious news.ftate*** However, as any old prospector will tell you, gold is where you find it. Long years ago, before even the days of the California Forty-Niners, an adventurer nnjued Benjamin Parks, discovered gold near a place called Dahlonega in the northern part of Georgia. That was in Eighteen Twenty-Eight. A year later, the claim came 1 ( I 1 I into possession of Senator John C. Calhoun of South Carolina. & a rich property for the great statesman of the old South. With even such primitive equipment as was then available, the Dahlonega Mine turned out gold to the tune of one thousand dollars a day, which is money in any Anno Domini. The mine was abandoned some thirty years ago, the lode having apparently petered out. But year it attracted ^ A 11 the adventurous spirit of Major Graham Dugas, one of the American flying aces in the last World War. Graham Dugas leased the land. put miners to work, and drilled below the previous working that he didn't go very deep, only a hundred and fifty feet, when . f nre an unmistakeable bonanza. The news he struck a new pocKet of ore. COLD - 2 was announced today by the head of the Georgia State Department of Geology, and he declaresLf^-EH^gs^Wi^E^?^^- assay sixty thousand dollars a ton, and that's a conservative estimate. And the vein got thicker the farther the miners dug down. %hat* s more, tne indications are that with modern equipment, additional lodes and veins may be brought to light, which will . make the old mine of John Calhoun as rich as any of the A. other famous ore deposits in other parts of the world. Having told this much, I must also repeat the warning uttered by the official geologist of Georgia. Let no prospectors come rushing to the scene of tha^t strike. Every square foot of the land in the neighborhood is privately owned and there’s no chance for any outsider to stake out claims as in the gold rushes or the famous old days of the Yukon. y-. i" 'V . tragedy occurred toQay# «rh?rn^trt^he^^b>~u^ Wtu-^TTSiir^it^i The Mayor of Long Beach, Long Island, escorted by fL&£i!LzL his^bodyguard, v^as leaving his home to go to the i-i-mg s", o D City nail. They hadn’t gone far when ✓ ^ motorcycle#js^tt5®flra»^ Thrft-motorcycle ired five shots /V /v at the Mayor of Long Beach and at his own fellow patrolmen. he killed the Mayor, and seriously wounded the bodyguard. He then went to police headquarters, told what he had done, gave himself up, and he said to the chief of police, ’’I’m sorry I didn’t get you too.” All this out of a political squabble within •» the police force. The^os^e:e5»i*^v/ho did the shooting had been for four years in succession President of the Patrolmen’s Benevolent Association. The Mayor was a reformer, who was trying to clean up the city government. The Mayor had another cundid-ate - k t ?. 4, ttl *.' ‘ ~ ~ .iaU~ for President of the Mayor’s candidate won. v5aa~^he^an¥¥~of~aIX-The^Eragedy I It has been quite a long while since v,e had a tall story on this bro&acast. Today the ticker seems to be fairly sizzling with them, though they appear as true tales. Anyway, here are a couple^ i-P one from Tucson, Arizona. Tnere’s a deputy sheriff there named Al Franco, who has a horse named ’’Dick.” A A fire broKe out last night in the stable where Deputy Sheriff Franco is telling the world today that Dick A not only unlatched the door of the stable with his nose but led five other horses bllfe•--etTcr&xxp-wit7frrhifc to safety. AJSSklhe Deputy Sheriff vouches for it. ^ story like that could nave originated only out where the west begins. ^Jerefs another^from still further west, the State of Washington, to be exact. A party of hunters. Norman Bright, once a famous athlete of neland-Stanford University He broke several records including the five thousand meter inarx hunting for both indoors and outdoors. Bright not with a gun but with a camera. He came in sight of a herd of a hundred elk which included a particularly fine bull, orignt Wonted photograph the bull, but the animal v(’ouidnrt stand still. HORSE - 2 camera in hand. ran after him. At the end \ of two miles, the bull came to a standstill, panting and exhausted, and Norman Bright got his photograph. TRIPLETS A physician at Secialia, Missouri, made a peculiar professional bet. of his patients "nbT^fc—^44 i_,, 11 ^ -P-T .. Z* p&pulttTrizz? and this physician had a hunch that^siw woulR A /v more than one baby. So he made a bargaintjcfctfe^iggt , If-vsn&. twins j he would charge only A F^the first. For triplets^no charge at all; for quadruplets he not. eatly vr:n\\ hi dollars. But for quintuplets, like the Famous Dionne Five, the bargain was that the doctor and 'the family should split all the money received from moving picture rights^«**£■ advertising endorsements^ c^VV » The doctor lost. All the lady . . A- A bhe^lady hrt^^was triplets.